Hanging-up and carrying-off machine for wall-paper manufacturers  use



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r J. .WALDRONQ Hang-ingnp and Carrying off Machine for Wall PaperManufacturers Use. No. 237,645. Patented Feb. 8,1881.

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J. WALDRON. 1 Hanging up and Carryingoff Machine forWall PaperManufacturer-s Use. No. 237,645. Patented Feb. 8,1881.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR STATES JOHN WALDRON. OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

HANGING-UP AND CARRYING-OFF MACHINE FOR WALL-PAPER MANUFACTURERS USE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,645, dated February8, 1881.

Application filed December 8, 1880.

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The class of machinery to which my invention belongs is employed for thedrying of freshly-grounded, sized, or printed paper or other fabric.

The machines themselves consist of double lines of endless belts orropes traveling over or by means of grooved pulleys or the like,depending in suitable hangers from the ceiling of a drying-room, and soarranged as to receive festoons of the paper or other fabric to bedried, hung upon laths or slats, which latter are fed, by means of whatare known as latlrbelts, under the paper as it emerges from theapparatus in which it has been treated, and are then carried by saidlath-belts to and deposited upon the lines of belts so as to besupported between the same, and supporting and carrying the paper to becarried thereby.

Drying-rooms being of restricted length, it is customary to employdevices known as turn-rounds for turning the slats at the ends of givenlines, and thereby making the lines of any desired length.

My present invention relates solely to the lines or straight portions ofthe hanging-up machine, but is designed for employment in connectionwith such a turn-round as is patented to me in and by Letters Patent N0. 234,359, dated November 9, 1880, to which reference is to be made fora clearer understandin g of the turn-round employed.

Heretofore the lines of these machines have consisted of endless ropesor belts traveling over vertical grooved pulleys suspended in suitablehangers from the ceiling of the drying-room, the slats traveling uponthe ropes or belts.

My invention consists in a hanging-up machine for drying paper or otherfabric in festoons the straight lines of which are composed of twoendless belts traveling against suitablyarranged pulleys,'but wider thanthe pulleys against or by means of which they travel, and

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standing in a vertical position, so as to project above the uppersurface of the pulleys and receive and support upon their upper edgesthe slats to be carried.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents, in top-planview, ahanging-up machine conveniently embodying my invention and employing mypatented turn-round hereinbefore referred to. Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the same.

In the drawings the turn-round is lettered A, its construction andoperation beingidentically that explained at length in my patent. I donot regard further description of it here as necessary.

B B and O O are the straight lines of my apparatus, constructed of boltsof leather, rubber, or other fit material, (marked D in the drawings.)The apparatus represented has but two lines, and the outer belt of eachline travels over horizontal pulleys E, one of each pair beingconveniently actuated to rotation by a suitable driving-shaft andbevel-gear device, F. The inner belt of each line is formed of a singleendless belt, G, which travels around the horizontal pulleys H and thedirectionehanging roll H at one end, and around the horizontal disk J,which constitutes the inside curve or short path of the turn-round atthe other. These lines are driven by any suitable bevel-gearing, such asK.

L is a series of supporting or friction rolls, which are suitablysupported in a hanging frame, M, and which serve to steady the underedge of the belts represented and sustain the latter in line against theweight of the slats N and their supported festoons 0.

It will be understood that the whole arrangement is supported in anysuitable hanging frame-work, whichmay be of such construction asconvenience of manufacture may dictate.

, Any number of lines may be employed, arranged in proper relation toproperly form turn-rounds.

In Fig. 3 I have represented in side elevation, and in Fig. 4 inend'sectional elevation, a modified form of apparatus, in which thebelt, instead of being supported by friction-rolls, as in the apparatuslast above described, is supported in a groovedboard, It, the grooveacting in place of the friction-rolls.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- 1. In a hanging-up machine fordrying paper or other fabric in fcstoons, belts, forming the lines,traveling in a vertical position and adapted to support and carry upontheir upper edges the slats which support the festoons.

2. Two parallel belts or equivalent carrying media, forming the lines ofa dryinganachine, and having th eirupperorcarryinedges above thesurfaces of the pulleys or wheels upon and by means of which they arecarried.

3. Two parallel belts or equivalent carrying media, forming the lines ofa drying-machine and traveling throughout theirrespectivc courses in thesame horizontal plane.

4. Two parallel belts or equivalent carrying media, forming the lines ofa drying-machine, in combination with grooved boards which support theirunder edges and retain their upper edges in the same horizontal plane.

In testimony \vhereofI have hereunto signed my name this 18th day ofNovember, A. D. 1880.

J N O. VALDRON.

In presence ot- J. BONSALL TAYLOR, W. O. STRAWBRIDGE.

